BATH FILM F esTIvAL Bath Film Festival 13 – 23 November, 2014 bathfilmfestival.org.uk 27 November – 14 December 2014 The UK’s favourite Christmas Market Over 170 stalls in the most magical of settings Local, handmade and unique gifts More than 60 new traders this year BathChristmasMarket.co.uk QUALITY ASSURED VISITOR AT TRACTION Hello & Welcome Bath Film Festival 2014 is here, the best time of the year for film. The line up is fantastic; we have 19 previews, 20 special guests, family films, sci-fi, special events, feature docs and a new venue. Ten days to gorge yourself on the best films on offer: enjoy! Philip Raby, Director Contents Films at-a-glance 4 – 5 Some of the faces behind the scenes 7 F Rated Films 9 Bath Spa University Strand 11 FilmScore 12 Burfield Sci-Fi / Family 13 Documentaries and Q&As 15 Bath Film Festival Awards 17 Our Sponsors 18 – 19 Map and Bookings 20 – 21 All the films 22 - 41 Registered Office: 2nd Floor, Abbey Chambers, Kingston Parade, Bath BA1 1LY Tel: 01225 463 458 Facebook: Facebook.com/BathFilmFestival Twitter: @bathfilm #BFF2014 Registered in the UK no. 3400371 Registered Charity no. 1080952 bathfilmfestival.org.uk facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 3 This year’s film programme Film listings at-a-glance go to page 22 EvENt vENuE Start PagE EvENt vENuE Start PagE Thursday 13 November Sunday 16 November What We Do In The Shadows Little@Komedia 19:00/21:00 22 My Old Lady Little Theatre 16:00 25 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ODEON 21:00 22 Difret Chapel Arts 17:30 26 Northern Soul The Rondo 18:40 26 Friday 14 November IMDb Short Film Awards Chapel Arts 19:50 26 Cathedrals of Culture 3D ODEON 18:00 22 Love Is Strange Little Theatre 21:00 27 How To Get Into The Film Industry Little Theatre 18:30 23 The Gleaners and I The Rondo 21:00 28 Amour Fou Little Theatre 21:00 23 Wild ODEON 21:15 23 Monday 17 November Attila Marcel Little Theatre 18:30 28 Saturday 15 November Set Fire To The Stars The Rondo 19:00 28 Pelo Malo Little Theatre 16:00 24 Winter Sleep ODEON 20:00 29 Bicycle St Margaret’s Hall 20:00 24 Stations of the Cross Little Theatre 21:00 29 X+Y ODEON 20:00 24 Night Moves The Rondo 21:00 30 Manuscripts Don’t Burn Little Theatre 21:00 25 4 facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm bathfilmfestival.org.uk This year’s film programme bathfilmfestival.org.uk go to page 22 EvENt vENuE Start PagE EvENt vENuE Start PagE EvENt vENuE Start PagE Tuesday 18 November Friday 21 November Still Life Little Theatre 18:30 30 Arrietty My Small World Café 18:00 37 Omar The Rondo 19:00 30 Testament of Youth Little Theatre 21:00 38 Jimi: All Is By My Side ODEON 20:30 31 Human Capital Little@Komedia 21:00 32 Saturday 22 November Down By Law The Rondo 21:00 33 Song of the Sea Little Theatre 13:00 38 Charulata Little Theatre 15:00 39 Wednesday 19 November The Hatching Little Theatre 22:00 39 Finding Fela Chapel Arts 18:30 33 Wild Tales ODEON 19:00 33 Sunday 23 November When Animals Dream ODEON 21:30 34 The Wind Chapel Arts 17:00 40 Sletvrees? / Slut Phobia? Chapel Arts 21:30 35 Blind Little Theatre 19:00 40 Attacking The Devil Chapel Arts 19:15 40 Thursday 20 November Birdman Little Theatre 20:50 41 Hyena Little Theatre 18:20 35 Coherence Chapel Arts 18:30 35 Le Jour Se Leve Pound Arts Centre 19:30 36 Frequencies Chapel Arts 20:30 36 School of Babel Little Theatre 21:15 36 4 facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm bathfilmfestival.org.uk bathfilmfestival.org.uk facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 5 Bath’s only online community for food lovers FROM WATER TO WAITER IN A MATTER OF HOURS Join the conversation @ThePigGuide Blunos, 18-19 Pulteney Road, Bath BA2 4EZ Tel: 01225 481188 www.blunosrestaurant.com @Blunos Blunos thepigguide.com Some of the faces behind the scenes bathfilmfestival.org.uk Bath Film Festival is a registered charity overseen by a benevolent Board of Trustees chaired by Barbara Carroll. The industrious Programming Committee watch over 600 films every year to find the best shorts and features to screen at the festival. The Production Team are managed by Festival Producer Holly Tarquini with Philip Raby & Chris Baker. 1 2 3 4 7 9 11 1. Valencia Haynes Programmer 2. Alastair Goolden Technical Manager 3. Katie Weston Marketing Assistant 8 4. Reuben Wheeler Programmer 5. Pam Beddard Festival Publicist 6. Philip Raby Festival Director 7. Barbara Carroll Chair of the Trustees 8. Elspeth Hinde Festival Ambassador 9. Chris Baker Festival Founder 10. Holly Tarquini Festival Producer 5 6 10 11. Jess Cowley Festival Assistant bathfilmfestival.org.uk facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 7 LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED We’ll beat any genuine advertised price, voucher offer or system deal, online & in-store, by up to £100! All we ask is that products are brand new, boxed, carry a comparable warranty and in stock at time BIGGEST BRANDS, BEST PRICES, EXPERT ADVICE! of purchase. Ask in-store for more details. 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Our top five F-Rated Films You may have heard of the Bechdel Test, Sletvrees? / Slut Phobia? which outlines three criteria for choosing 1A fascinating, intimate exploration to watch a film; (1) it has to have at least of the attitude of both women and men two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, to female promiscuity. (3) about something other than a man. It is The Wind In association with shocking how few films meet even these 2 Birds Eye View Film Festival, basic requirements. Add to this, the statistics this dramatic silent film from 1928 on female directors (in the last 5 years fewer starring Lillian Gish will be screened than 5% of feature films released by major with a new accompaniment written and US studios were directed by women) and you performed by Lola Perrin. will undoubtedly agree that there is large scope for improvement. Night Moves This gripping thriller 3 is directed, edited and co-written by The F-Rated strand has been developed to the brilliantly understated Kelly Reichardt try and redress the balance. If our films have (Meek’s Cutoff). It stars Dakota Fanning and a female director, a female lead who is not Jesse Eisenberg and is a must-see film. simply there to support the male lead, or Difret are specifically about women then they will (pictured) In Ethiopia there is a receive an F-Rated stamp of approval. 4 tradition of kidnapping young girls and raping them as a prelude to marriage. Difret is the girl who fights back. The Gleaners and I Directed by the legendary 5 Agnès Varda, this film follows her journey into the world of the gleaners – the freegans of France who live at the edges of society, making good use of the things that they find. bathfilmfestival.org.uk facebook.com/BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 9 Bath Spa University Strand bathfilmfestival.org.uk Bath Spa University is well known for its creative output and its digital media degree courses. Our selection of films has been chosen to reflect these areas of study. Script Writing Wild Nick Hornby avoids the pitfalls Le Jour Se Lève Screenwriter of a based-on-a-true-story movie, Jacques Prévert was primarily a weaving present description with poet. His best regarded scripts past memories into a deft narrative form part of the poetic realist that captures the breadth and movement, and include Les depth of a woman’s life. Enfants du Paradis – commonly regarded as one of the best X + Y (pictured right) A film about films ever made. a maths genius needs to retain our interest as well as expound Art & Design the complexities. This script does a wonderful job of blending the Winter Sleep (main image) MA in Feature emotional, intellectual and moral Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan started Film-making challenges of the human condition. out as a photographer and every frame of this film is a stunning The Hatching You don’t need a Testament of Youth Adapting image in its own right. lot of money to make a film. You a popular book for the cinema do need a great script, boundless is never easy. Juliette Towhidi Song of the Sea Tomm Moore’s energy, self-belief and hard working (Calendar Girls, Death Comes gorgeous animated film about the supporters. This locally made To Pemberley) concentrates on myth of the ‘selkies’ proves that comic/horror/drama, featuring the emotional core of the story to independent animation is an art crocodiles on the Somerset Levels, brilliant effect.